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Authors Paula Maeker and Jacqueline Heller are practitioners who share the belief that all students can be literate at high levels. Explore their practical, research-affirmed framework for how teams can better sustain change and improve as literacy educators.

Embrace challenging conversations, confront biases, and shape learning from an early age with Little Learners, Big Hearts. This book equips early childhood educators with the necessary tools to become kind, caring forces, fostering meaningful connections with young children and families.

Achieve high engagement by building competence, autonomy, and content relevance in students, resulting in positive academic self-concept and self-efficacy. Readers will gain research-based instructional strategies for connecting with disengaged students and building positive student-teacher relationships

Counter negative student behavior with positive actions that preserve dignity. This resource provides 60 powerful, proven strategies for reaching challenging students.

Transform schoolwide reading achievement through systematic implementation of the science of reading within an MTSS framework. This comprehensive guide provides over 50 practical tools that help leaders engineer robust support systems across all tiers, creating lasting improvements that drive reading success.

Discover powerful instructional coaching tools, strategies, and processes aligned to the four critical questions of Professional Learning Communities at Work®. Ensure all collaborative teams in your PLC school are engaged in the right work to support student learning.

Explore new curricula criteria, encourage students to pursue their passions, and consider changes that can make school fun, realistic, and relevant.

Learn why classroom assessments should become the primary method for formally measuring student learning and how to revamp them to ensure validity and reliability.

Equip secondary students with age-appropriate strategies to conquer complex informational texts. Gain specific techniques to boost student confidence and facilitate engaging discussions, ultimately fostering deep comprehension and enhancing literacy skills for adolescent readers.

Rely on this practical guide to help your PLC implement a standards-based grading system at the secondary education level. Further your professional growth as an educator and discover motivational strategies for students to help them increase achievement.